goblet

From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒblət/

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goblet (plural goblets)

1. A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.

   sup wine from a goblet

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:

     At first Enkidu gags on the food, but then he grows to like the strong drink and takes seven goblets, until his face glows.

• chalice

• boglet